Georges St-Pierre Mma Quotations

It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking.

One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.

Nervous and scared is a good thing, it's your friend. You feel more on the edge, you feel like you're about to fall down the river, it's a good thing for me. I like that feeling.

It's bizarre, a punch in the face hurts less when you win than when you lose.

Make sure your approach is consistent and steady so that you can maintain the progress you're making as your journey continues.

I fight with emotion, but I don't fight with anger. I could be angry, but I'm not going to fight with anger because when you fight with anger you can make mistakes.

Before each one of my fights, I make a point of saluting my opponent. I salute the other fighter out of respect, even though he is trying to take something from me.

I like to think I'm like water that adapts to its surroundings and eventually finds a way in.

You can spend your life watching other people win or beat your name into history.

No two journeys are alike. Nobody can pretend to know the journey another person takes to achieve his dreams.

If I'm disrespectful to my opponent, how can I respect myself?

The only way forward in life is innovation.

I'm training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.

I'm always scared when I fight. But that fear is what keeps me more alert and more focused. It's good to have fear.

Efficiency for me is an obsession..It not only helps me get stronger but makes things simpler.

This extends to all things, but you only learn it by losing a few times.

The goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly.

Your body can dictate your mind... As I'm walking to the Octagon and I act with confidence, my body take over my mind, and I become confident for real.

A system that works for one person won't be perfect for another... Individuality is a major part of expanding knowledge.

Innovation keeps me ahead of my competition. It means that my foes must adapt to me, not the other way around.

When you pay attention to detail, the big picture will take care of itself.

Innovation, born from true creativity, depends on movement.

Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure.

Using your imagination to create mental images stimulates your mind, helps organize your life and keeps your focus in a particular direction. It allows your unconscious mind to work toward the image you have created, the goal. It's about understand the life you want to live, and seeing it unfold before you.

Once fear enters your life - it will take you in one of two directions: empowerment or panic.

I think it makes your stronger to admit that you're scared, because you're not scared to say that you're scared.

There's no honour fighting in the street, there is nothing to gain.

Set your goal and keep moving forward.

Watching myself fight, I realize the line between success and failure is so narrow, it's scary.

When great depths of unrelenting sorrow are punctuated by great peaks of joy and liberation, the result is delicious.

There are two kinds of people who do martial arts: those who practice a thousand different kicks one time each, and those who practice one kick a thousand times minimum. You can guess which group I belong to.

I've come up with my own cure for a closed mind: try it once, and see.

Seeking knowledge is like opening doors. And I know the doors are everywhere.

Fear is the genesis of most of the good things that have occurred in my life. Fear is the beginning of every success I've lived.

I will repeat a technique until it is mastered, no matter when that will be. One certainty though: it will be.

I see the world as a knowledge hardware story, and every day I'm just walking through the aisles.

People who believe in themselves can accomplish almost anything... all begins with attitude.

Think about climbing a mountain. If you decide you're going up Everest, you don't start with a sprint. You'll never make it out of base camp if you do that. The secret is two fold: make sure your approach is consistent and steady so that you can maintain the progress you're making as your journey continues.

I'm a shy guy... I don't enjoy being bothered but I never say no to a fan. I say yes to everybody... even though sometimes you have some days where you don't feel like it, but it's your duty as athlete to do it. Because the fans that pay it's going to make you live, so you have to do it. So I force myself to do it all the time.

Innovation is a discipline not a lottery... It comes from the combination of two elements within my control: hard work and openmindedness.

Growth is a long term game, and the crappy days are more important.

Don't be afraid to spend money to make money. That's one thing I've never been afraid of... to invest in myself.

You always recognize great champions... how they come back from a loss.

When you prepare a list of improvements and you make them small and achievable, you won't just stick to then, you'll increase the chances that you'll keep moving forward.

Thanks to his willingness to face me, my life takes shape, my path evolves.

Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing repeatedly.

The only way to ever truly get your confidence and swagger back, I've learned, is to fight for them.

One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions.

A true master gives all his knowledge. But only when the student is ready.

My mentality is like a samurai they used to train every day, work on their technique to make themselves better, almost perfect, perfection is impossible but every day you get closer and that's what I want . Every day I want to get better than I was the day before. I want to use every second of my life, every time I have in my life to make me a better fighter. It's more than a job it's a way of living.

Every little thing you do leads up to a bigger thing.

There is no luck in life, everything happens for a reason. Every little thing that you do... leads up to a bigger thing. And that's the story of my life.

Some people learn to lose. Others lose and learn.

My goal is to share all my learning, all of my knowledge, so that other generations of martial arts will benefit.

Power is different when you combined it with wisdom. Wisdom allows you to use less power to accomplish more tasks.

Once I got over my anger and rage from childhood, once I stopped feeling like a victim, I was able to open myself to great sources of learning.

Only way to eliminate the element of surprise is to know yourself and now your adversary.

I'm the kind of guy who only makes a mistake once, never twice.

Fear can be a natural ally, a homemade power source... Staying in the present, fear can only help you.

One of the keys to learning for me has been to not get so hung up on the past. It's important to remember the past, but that doesn't mean you have to torture yourself with it by reliving it every single day.

One of my favorite Japanese proverbs is "Fall down 7 times, stand up 8".

With training and self discipline; clear focus and confidence; problems can be overcome and even lead to unexpected gains

It's easy to talk, it's harder to fight.

Pick a goal, make a realistic plan to reach that goal, work through each step of the plan, and repeat.

Your body can dictate your mind, so when I walk to a fight a lot of times I'm scared, I'm scared to death, I have a lot of doubts of myself, I'm afraid to fail, I'm afraid to be humiliated in front of everybody; but what happens, I act like it's impossible for me to fail and that my victory is a certainty. So as I'm walking to the Octagon and I act with confidence my body takes over my mind and I become confident for real. As I'm walking I see the change in my mind and when I reach the Octagon I'm a different person, I'm very confident.

It all comes down to confidence: your body can do great things only if it believes it can accomplish them.

Standing still is never a good option. Not in the ring, and not in life... When you stop moving, you're done.

Training to become champion is the toughest thing. The fight itself is just a test.